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Can I pay to have quarters delivered to my door on laundry day? How do I find someone in this very bar who might be willing to have sex with me? How can I get home from a raucous night on the town if there are no taxis nearby?

washingtonpost.com
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Can I pay to have quarters delivered to my door on laundry day? How do I find someone in this very bar who might be willing to have sex with me? How can I get home from a raucous night on the town if there are no taxis nearby?

economix.blogs.nytimes.com
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The Consumerist recently linked to this remarkable chart: The chart was put together by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, but its figures still, alas, look quite relevant. Thanks to lobbying, Congress chooses to subsidize foods that we're supposed to eat less of. Of course, there are surely other reasons why burgers are cheaper than salads.

mysanantonio.com
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Photo By Susan Walsh /Associated Press They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. We will soon find out whether our senators are truly insane.

sltrib.com
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Perhaps more important, at least from a fiscal responsibility perspective, both times the program was scrapped because it actually cost taxpayers money on net, despite assurances ahead of time of the huge bounty it would lasso. The more recent period when privatization was piloted, from 2006 to 2009, Uncle Sam had been projected to gain more than $1 billion.

richmond.com
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Tucked into a dusty corner of the Senate's pending Highway Trust Fund bill is a zombie proposal to hire private debt-collection agencies to hound delinquent taxpayers on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS has actually tried outsourcing tax-collection activities before, at Congress' behest. Twice, in fact, over the last two decades.

jsonline.com
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They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. We will soon find out whether our senators are truly insane. Tucked into a dusty corner of the Senate's pending Highway Trust Fund bill is a zombie proposal to hire private debt-collection agencies to hound delinquent taxpayers on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service.

washingtonpost.com
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They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and still expecting a different result. We will soon find out whether our senators are truly insane. Catherine Rampell is an opinion columnist at The Washington Post.

dallasnews.com
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In addition to being (obviously) the laziest, most narcissistic and most entitled generation ever, millennials have claimed for themselves yet another generational superlative: least likely to vote. A new report from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University finds that, in 2014, youth voter turnout fell to its lowest level on record.

sltrib.com
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To be fair, voter turnout hit record lows across the board, not just among younger voters. But among the young, turnout fell especially steeply from an already low baseline. The question, of course, is why. Why is this generation, which seems to consider itself so socially conscious, leaving democracy behind?